News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-08
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

dresses.
For trimmings, net ribbons and flow
ers are used.
Small pokes arc pretty and answer as
wen the purpose OF honnets as round
hats.
Dark India blues, green and brown are
the reigning colors in wraps that are
worn while out driving.
Lace mittcns, minus the fingers, are
once more regarded with favor and held
as the proper thing by ultra fashion
ables.
In white and colored embroideries
there is endless variety, and the most
beautiful specimens may be obtained at
low prices.
1t is fact that Queen Victoria favors
simple dishes of which she partakes
moderately, and likes tea very much bet
ter than wine.
The canvas grenadines with large
meshes are very much liked for their
durability and arc also very stylish when
made after drcssy model.
A society for the promotion of the
higher education of women has been
founded in Japan under the president
ship of the Prime Minister
The hair is now worn medium height
and arranged in soft coils, or braided
round and round, and the Russian and
straight bangs are still popular.
Lace ruffles and other modish decora-
tions lend beauty to the coquettish gypsy
hats which even the masculine fault
finders have denominated lovely.
Among the tasteful wrappers designed
for misses, one of figured percale, made
in Mother Hubbard fashion, gratifed
most mothers to whom it was shown.
Miss Nina Matthews, of ST. Louis, has
rescued two persons from drowning at
Shelter Island this season. She is a
graceful and daring young swimmer.
Nine. Diculafay, of Paris, who recently
received the Cross of the Legion of
Honor for her scientific researches in
Asia, is organizing an African exploring
expedition.
Gauze picot ribbons grouped with
satin faced velvets, or gros grain ribbons,
make a trimming decidedly handsome for
hats, bonnets and costumes, and they
are largely employed for the purpose.
Silk net in black is very refined and
elegant made over tatfeta. The silk net
in other colors is also very much worn
and makes a charming evening dress
combined with colored velvet or plush.
The fashion of wearing the hair in the
simple twist on the crown of the head
has held its own so long it is hard to dis
place it with anything more elaborate.
Yet the French coiffure of to-day is la
pompadour.
Irish point and other heavy and effect
i've laces trim cotton fabrics very stylish
ly this season. Sometimes the vest is
composed wholly of lace or panel and
perhaps broad cuffs to the Swiss or NUT
ton leg sleeves.
Miss Della Beck, of Apollo, Pa, is the
heaviest girl in the Keystone State. She
is only sixteen years old and weighs 403
pounds. Miss Beck is blonde, and is
as active and graceful as the majority of
girls at sixteen.
Chain bracelets are fashionable now
for engaged young women. The lover
places the bracelet about the wrist of his
sweetheart and fastens it on with a gold
paddock, the key of which he wears on
his watch chain.
A pretty and simple fashion for trim
ming wash skirts is to run two rows of
Hamburg insertion above the hens; also
the waist may be finished by rows of in
sertion let in from the waist line. This
is a stylish and popular fashion.
Small waists are not with the present
modes considered very desirable attrac-
tions; on the contrary the first modistes
of Paris are set against the pernicious
practice of lacing tightly and acknowl-
edge that it produces an ugly effect in
the pushing up of the shoulders.
Spangles in jet, gold and silver are the
fashion of the hour. They are applied
to crepe dc chine and foulard when used
as draperies on skirts. They glitter on
the small mantles now worn, and on
bonnets, to say nothing of shoes, which
! become more and more dainty.
Great beauty of workmanship is law
ished on belt buckles this season, and
they are in some cases very elaborate in
decoration, the coarser gems like lapis
lazuli, malachite, garnets and cornelian
being used in their construction. Silver
is the favorlte metal in which to set
these stones.
Pique is this season favored for misses
costumes, the lace woven and soft corded
varieties being especially liked. The
skirts of costumes made of these mate
rials are trimmed with gathered flounces
of the goods, and the body portion with
braid, contrasting bands or other fiat
trimmings.
Sashes holding so popular a place in
the favor of young ladies this season there
is large importation of fancy ribbons
from nine to fourteen inches wide which
are to be selected from. Among the most
desirable of these are the changeable and
the lengthwise striped ribbons. Flor
escent ribbons are yet the most decidedly
novel of all the new ribbons.